introduction- crisis of modern civilisation by Kishen Patnaik

Every one is saying now a days that all is not well with the modern civilisation. That is neither here nor there. The question is has it failed? where has it failed? and why? Late mr. P.V.Kuryan in this book has a reply to the foregoing questions. He has made a masterly survey of the five to six centuries of modern civilisation of modern European history, and analysed its most salient events, often going to their roots.
What he finds is that the moden civilisation is no doubt a grand show. Its accomplishments are near miraculous. Its achieement, however, is nil. Judging from the ponit of view of the interests of mankind as a whole, it has not been able to solve a single problem that besets humanity. The peoblems of hunger, lack of housing, lack of peace ans security for the ordinary man, and specially those of women are nowhere near solution . Some of these problems, like hunger, have a matter of fact becoem worse, and the number of people affacted is ever increasing. can anybody fefute the authors statement that compared to earlier civilisations more people are underfed in the present day world.
The auther's critique of leaders and nations is sometimes very harsh. He has not spared KarlMarx for comm
miting mistakes which , to my mind can be explained by the age of matters. Marx's thinking was Eurocentric.He could not see the exploitative nature of the technology that had driven Europe in the to the pinnacles of glory. He colud not see anything positive in the societies and cultures of the non.European world that would contribute towards the progress and fulfilment of humanities quest. Marxists who are now aware of these flaws in their doctrine should not be dettered by the aggressive tone of P.V.Kurya's evaluation of Marx, Stalin. . They must start their dialogue in the light of the criticisms contained in this book. aren't they reconsidering a few things in the light of Ayodhya?